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Sonia Sotomayor blasts conservative justices for ‘rewarding lawlessness’ from the Trump administration

Dissenting justice warns court actions expose ‘thousands to the risk of torture or death’.

A German court will rule Monday on the case of a Syrian doctor accused of crimes against humanity under former dictator Bashar al-Assad's regime.

A man is accused of the torture and physical abuse of a seven-week-old baby boy which appeared to be prolonged, in what police say is a deeply confronting case.

Government acknowledges UK involvement in detention operations for first time in Guantánamo inmates case

A collaborative investigation by international media outlets has uncovered secret prisons run by Russian Wagner mercenaries in Mali, where abuse and torture are carried out with impunity. Reporters with the Forbidden Stories consortium – which includes RFI's sister channel France 24 – reveal how the Wagner paramilitary group duplicated methods…

Maksym Butkevych tells of pattern of beatings and threats of execution and sexual violence to extract ‘confession’

At 12.48 pm on May 13, 2025, Abdul Wahid Shaikh stood at the threshold of academic triumph. After years of struggle, the 47-year-old school teacher was finally submitting his PhD thesis on “prison literature” at Mahatma Gandhi Mission University in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar. A man who had spent nine years…

This chilling film takes two activist brothers back to the hellish jails where they were held for almost a decade. Then it goes further – and tracks down the soldiers who tortured for the Assad regime